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Constitutional Reform in the Andes: Redefining Indigenous-State Relations

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Multiculturalism in Latin America

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In the 1990s most Latin American countries underwent significant constitutional reforms. Almost all of the new constitutions incorporated language that formally recognised the identities and rights of their indigenous populations for the first time. Among the first states to do so were the central Andean countries, following the lead of neighbouring Colombia, which introduced the then-most-extensive constitutional regime of ethnic rights in Latin America in 1991.

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    Rachel Sieder (Senior Lecturer in Politics) (Senior Lecturer in Politics)

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Van Cott, D.L. (2002). Constitutional Reform in the Andes: Redefining Indigenous-State Relations. In: Sieder, R. (eds) Multiculturalism in Latin America. Institute of Latin American Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403937827_3

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